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fatima al qadiri - asiatisch - hyperdub - vinyl

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Genre: Bass

1. Shanzhai (For Shanzhai Biennial) (feat Helen Feng)
2. Szechuan
3. Wudang
4. Loading Beijing
5. Hainan Island
6. Shenzhen
7. Dragon Tattoo
8. Forbidden City
9. Shanghai Freeway
10. Jade Stairs

Ambient Chinese music with grime influences.

Multidisciplinary artist Fatima Al Qadiri aligns with Hyperdub to release Asiatisch, a keenly anticipated debut album that's described as a "simulated road trip through an imagined China". First coming to prominence on the UNO label in 2011, Al Qadiri has subsequently provoked critical acclaim for the 2012 Desert Strike EP for Fade To Mind that played on her time spent living in Kuwait as a child, while her work under the Ayshay moniker for Tri Angle explored vocals in a unique manner. Asiatisch expands on the political themes of Desert Strike in a new and unexpected way, and acts as a homage to the style of grime known as "sinogrime". Asian motifs and melodies are prominent throughout whilst conceptually Al Qadiri runs through "the fantasies of east Asia as refracted through pulpy Western pop culture". If that wasn't enough to sell you on the concept, opening track "Shanzhai" is a "nonsensical Mandarin" language cover of Sinead O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U".